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What I really want to see is a website that has all the things that will be on my nov ballot. I want to see each person, their party, and their views. No mudslinging. Then I want to see all the issues and their pros and cons.

Wouldn't be tough to MAKE a site like this. Have the reps sign themselves in and put in their own views (though there will have to be rules against trickery or trying to sit in the middle of the fence).
I don't want to WRITE the site... I just want to USE the site. I hate having to do my own research, cause candidates only smear the other candidate instead of actually telling us their views (Jean Schmidt is my congresswoman... not a fan of her, but her opponent is equally inept. I have no idea which to choose and will have to spend time researching it only to find that I'm screwed regardless of how I vote...). Anything like this already exist, by chance?

Are pretty good about listing what they support. At least for the major issues. Pro-choice candidates tend to have pro-choice banners/endorsements on their site, while anti-abortion candidates tend to have anti-abortion banners/endorsements on their site.

Of course you could spend an entire year just making a site that has a chart detailing every possible view on the abortion debate...

Are *very* slanted towards their own views- and thus will only provide links to candidates that support those views. I think the site you propose would be very interesting, but it would be a *lot* of work reconfiguring it for each election- especially when you get into highly local things like local bond and property tax measures.

Yeah, I was going to say that in California you routinely get a guide like that. Of course, in California you also face more initiatives (many of them with deliberately confusing wording) than in the other 49 states combined.

It's not as extensive as what you have in mind, but it's pointed in the right direction. If I don't miss my guess, you'll find this link [lwvcincinnati.org] useful. They seem to be associated with SmartVoter.org [smartvoter.org] which is even closer to what you're after.

They were giving out brochures with incumbant information for the house and senate in my school's library, here's their website: http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm [vote-smart.org]. They include 'NPAT' information.